Before I do anything crazy, can someone help me verify if this is wild Bermuda or crabgrass? I’m starting to get breakout patches in my Kentucky Bluegrass. Thank you.
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NFicano
It’s worth mentioning, this is from different parts of my lawn, but it looks very similar
Sidewyz1
I’m no expert but that looks very similar to Saint Augustine.
Kachel94
It’s grass, in Australia it’s called Buffalo and it’s pretty decent depending on the cultivar.
Why does reddit not have built in AI yet that automatically identifies all of the grass in every photo. Fuck you u/spez
amartinkyle
Indica
dev_all_the_ops
It’s not Bermuda or crab grass.
Bermuda grows horizontally and has red tips while growing. Crab grass also grows horizontally.
Mobile-Welder3132
I thought this was a joke at first because my whole lawn is St Augustine grass
purpring
Hard to tell for sure, there are parts of grasses you need to look at to fully identify one against the other in a photo and I can’t fully see in the pics. My best guess is quackgrass. Fescue was also a thought
littleguy632
Crabgrass the worst of kind
flailingtoucan39
1000% saint augustine grass. It’s the main type of grass down here in FL. It will outcompete many different grasses/weeds.
Whitey_Bulger_
Looks just like my Saint Augustine
Papapeta33
In the south, pretty sure that’s grass.
tpilews
Zoysia
LR117
Um…that’s grass.
Georgiaboy1492
No weed but St. Augustine grass.
Tamagotchi41
As a Florida home owner, I can’t help but think of Anakin Skywalker when timing about St Augustine
“I don’t like St Augustine grass. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Misanthropemoot
Can confirm. My entire yard is like an airbed
no_sleep2nite
Lot of upvotes for St Augustine. At first glance, I can see why some of pics like. This is not St Aug.
Couple of things. You have to zoom in and look at the characteristics. Saint Augustine spreads by stolons. Along the stolen, there are nodes. That is what the leaf blade grows from. They only come up from each node. The blades “Y” off from the node. It doesn’t telescope out from itself and the blades aren’t rolled at the bottom.
In the bottom of pic 1 on the concrete, what looks like a purple stolon… you can telescoping with a rolled leaves at the bottom of blade. In the bottom of picture 3 , you can again see a telescoping stem with leaves coming off of that stem. I don’t see nodes. And, the tips of the blades are tightly rolled. The leaves are opposite of each other. On picture two, if you zoom in, you can see that the blades have very prominent parallel veins, and what looks to be a clasping auricale right in the middle.
It can be very difficult to identify a weed without a seed head or a flower. There are many weeds that look very much alike, but the thing that distinctly sets them apart is the seed head. Without that we can only somewhat guess.
For picture 2, it looks to be maybe clumping fescue or ryegrass. Picture 1 Could be a variety of crabgrass or maybe indica based on how it looks it’s spreading near the concrete. I tried looking at some extension offices websites for the north east. It’s possible that signal grass can grow in New York. The rest of the pictures possibly be signal grass, a variety of crabgrass mixed in OPs KBG. I see some that have prominent veins… could be something like mowed foxtail. I wouldn’t be surprised if wild Bermuda can be found in the north during summer. You can down vote me all you want, but this is 100% not Saint Augustine.
foundaquarter
100% not st. Augustine. It does however look similar to zoysia.
supersecretturtle
OG Kush
bemberry
…looks around for candid cameras
Birdsandflan1492
That’s not weed. That’s literally St. Augustine grass. Lol
2MuckingFuch
I hate this shit. I have a fescue lawn and Bermuda grass and I are in a never ending battle.
marxxximus
It’s not a weed, obviously. Quit trolling my feed.
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Hey! Did someone say *crabgrass*? Here are [pictures of crabgrass](https://www.google.com/search?q=crabgrass&tbm=isch) and [control options for crabgrass](https://www.lawndork.com/weeds/crabgrass).
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It’s worth mentioning, this is from different parts of my lawn, but it looks very similar
I’m no expert but that looks very similar to Saint Augustine.
It’s grass, in Australia it’s called Buffalo and it’s pretty decent depending on the cultivar.
[Bluemuda](https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/course-care/green-section-record/59/04/bluemuda—benefits–establishment-and-management.html)
Looks like clumping fescue or k31
Looks like tropical signal grass or torpedo grass
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I’m in New York for what it’s worth
This is coarse/clumping tall fescue.
St Augustine grass. My entire yard is this.
Why does reddit not have built in AI yet that automatically identifies all of the grass in every photo. Fuck you u/spez
Indica
It’s not Bermuda or crab grass.
Bermuda grows horizontally and has red tips while growing.
Crab grass also grows horizontally.
I thought this was a joke at first because my whole lawn is St Augustine grass
Hard to tell for sure, there are parts of grasses you need to look at to fully identify one against the other in a photo and I can’t fully see in the pics. My best guess is quackgrass. Fescue was also a thought
Crabgrass the worst of kind
1000% saint augustine grass. It’s the main type of grass down here in FL. It will outcompete many different grasses/weeds.
Looks just like my Saint Augustine
In the south, pretty sure that’s grass.
Zoysia
Um…that’s grass.
No weed but St. Augustine grass.
As a Florida home owner, I can’t help but think of Anakin Skywalker when timing about St Augustine
“I don’t like St Augustine grass. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Can confirm. My entire yard is like an airbed
Lot of upvotes for St Augustine. At first glance, I can see why some of pics like. This is not St Aug.
Couple of things. You have to zoom in and look at the characteristics. Saint Augustine spreads by stolons. Along the stolen, there are nodes. That is what the leaf blade grows from. They only come up from each node. The blades “Y” off from the node. It doesn’t telescope out from itself and the blades aren’t rolled at the bottom.
In the bottom of pic 1 on the concrete, what looks like a purple stolon… you can telescoping with a rolled leaves at the bottom of blade. In the bottom of picture 3 , you can again see a telescoping stem with leaves coming off of that stem. I don’t see nodes. And, the tips of the blades are tightly rolled. The leaves are opposite of each other. On picture two, if you zoom in, you can see that the blades have very prominent parallel veins, and what looks to be a clasping auricale right in the middle.
It can be very difficult to identify a weed without a seed head or a flower. There are many weeds that look very much alike, but the thing that distinctly sets them apart is the seed head. Without that we can only somewhat guess.
For picture 2, it looks to be maybe clumping fescue or ryegrass. Picture 1 Could be a variety of crabgrass or maybe indica based on how it looks it’s spreading near the concrete. I tried looking at some extension offices websites for the north east. It’s possible that signal grass can grow in New York. The rest of the pictures possibly be signal grass, a variety of crabgrass mixed in OPs KBG. I see some that have prominent veins… could be something like mowed foxtail. I wouldn’t be surprised if wild Bermuda can be found in the north during summer. You can down vote me all you want, but this is 100% not Saint Augustine.
100% not st. Augustine. It does however look similar to zoysia.
OG Kush
…looks around for candid cameras
That’s not weed. That’s literally St. Augustine grass. Lol
I hate this shit. I have a fescue lawn and Bermuda grass and I are in a never ending battle.
It’s not a weed, obviously. Quit trolling my feed.
Quack grass
https://search.app.goo.gl/aWCjkJD
Absolutely not St. Aug
Crabgrass for sure
Alexandergrass (Brachiaria plantaginea)
Kinda looks like you may have both zoysia and St. Augustine? Might also be crabgrass/dallisgrass. Hard to tell tbh.
Centipede kush
Not the cool kind
Looks like the centipede grass that most yards in my neighborhood have. I absolutely detest it!